Prachi Mehta
- Academic Fellow
- Lecturer
Prachi Mehta was the first fellow appointed to Texas Law’s Academic Fellowships program, a two-year program supporting emerging scholars who aspire to join the legal academy as tenure-track faculty members. As an academic fellow and visiting lecturer, she focuses on patent research and teaches a seminar on patent and drug law.
Prachi Mehta was the first fellow appointed to Texas Law’s Academic Fellowships program, a two-year program supporting emerging scholars who aspire to join the legal academy as tenure-track faculty members. As an academic fellow and visiting lecturer, she focuses on patent research and teaches a seminar on patent and drug law.
From 2016-17, Mehta clerked for Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler and practiced at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago before and after her clerkship. She later worked as a litigation associate at firms in Redwood City, California, and opened her own practice in 2022.
Mehta earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA and J.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law in 2015, where she served as a research assistant to Assistant Dean Melissa Wasserman. In her final year of law school, Mehta earned the Rickert Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, a prestigious honor at the school recognizing excellence in student achievement.
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year-2016
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Article
Note, To Bilski, and Beyond: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Opacity on Patent Law and the Modern Administrative State
Prachi Mehta, Amy Maslar. “Note, To Bilski, and Beyond: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Opacity on Patent Law and the Modern Administrative State.” In 2016 U. Ill. L. Rev, Page 1157 (August 8, 2016). View online.
year-2014
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Article
Note, Expanding the Doctrine of Innovator Liability
Prachi Mehta. “Note, Expanding the Doctrine of Innovator Liability.” In 2014 Ill. J. L. Tech. & Pol'y, Page 531 (July 1, 2014). View online.
spring 2027
- SMNR: Biopharmaceutical Innovation and Regulation